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THE GAMECOCK CROWING FOR A GREATER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Member of Associated Collegiate Preom Distributor of Collegiate Digest Founded January $0. 1908. with RHobert Elliott Gonzales as the first editor. THE GAMECOCK Is published by and for the students a$ the University of South Carelina In Columbia semi-weekly. Tuesday and Saturday, durlag the college year except holidays and examinations. Editorial and business offices are located I. the east basement of Sims dormitory. Advertising rates are 65 cents as inch. Deadlines for Saturday edition: editorial aid society. 9 . m. Wednesday; news and sports. $ p. m. Thursday. Deadlines for Tuesday edities: editorial and society. S p. m. Friday; mews and sports, S p. m. Sunday. Oiieles expressed by columnists and letter-writers are aet aoeessarily these of THE GAMECOCK. Publishing does met constitute am endersement although the right to edit is reserved. STAFF Editor .............................................. Mary Shoun Managing Editor ................................. Mike Karvelas EDITORIAL STAFF News Editor ............................................................ Bob Isbell Sports Editor .......................................................... Don Barton Society Editor ..................................................... Libby McDaniel Feature Editor ..................................................... Carroll Gilliam Exchange Editor ..................................................... Peggy Trezler Cartoonist .................................................... Samuel L. Boylston Reporters-Margaret Sloan, Libby Cole, Irene Sanders, Bob Gunter, George Stanley, Jane Dowe, Cyrus Shealy, Joy Conard, Ruth Newell, Phil Clark, Jean Davis, Jo Anne Dillinger, Norins Corley, Bob Carpenter. Mary Saye Gaston. Holly Beck, Bill McClain, Helen Childers. Lynn Couch, Joe Molony, Sidney Brandenburg, Ranny Reaves, Betty eoty, Chick Shiels, Ken Baldwin, Syd Badger, Viima Huggins, Jane Dowe. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager .................................. Candy Taylor Advertising Manager .................................................. Harry ilott Co-Circulation Managers .......................... Lynn Hook and Darien Robertson Business Stafft......................................... Ann Mood, Betty Mood Health Protection No matter how trite and worn-out the old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", it has never failed to prove its truth. The Gamecock uses it now in considering the number of cases of illness in the infirmary. Many students are treated daily for minor colds and illnesses. Several are admitted for constant, supervised treatment. The infirmary staff has been increased to meet the over flow of patients. Some staff members are working double time. In an effort to curb the spreading of infection, visitors are not allowed. The Gamecock is not offering an elementary lesson in health care. Each student should know how to keep well. The Gamecock, however, urges that, at the first symptoms of illness, a student report to the infirmary and get neces sary medical attention. It is a two-fold protection not only for the individual student but also for other students with whom he will be in contact. The Gamecock Enlarges During the remainder of the semester, one issue of The Gamecock each week will contain six pages instead of the regular four. Increase in size is due to our signing a con tract with a national advertising agency recently. The enlarged edition will carry an additional page of sports news and the other extra page will carry more pic tures, regular news, Intercollegiate Press bulletins, and features. Because of mid-semester examinations, The Gamecock will not be published next week. There will be an eight-page issue on April 1, the Tuesday before Easter holidays begin. That will be the last issue until after holidays, when the regular schedule will be resumed. A Letter From Germany The following letter was received this week by Dean F. W. Bradley who sent it to The Gamecock for publication: Gartenstrasse 12, (20b) Goettingen, Bez. Hannover, Germany, British Zone Your Honour: This letter is written in the name of my friends and in my own name. We all are students of German uni versities, -some of us graduated. We wish to get into touch and connection with American students in order that the knowledge and the agreement between the American and the German people grow better and faster in the mind of the United Nations and a real friendship between the peoples of the world. My friends and I want to do our duty within this great task. Therefore we beg Your Honour to publicate our let ter to the students of the University of South Carolina and to ask, if there are some of them who want to get into correspondence with us in English or German language. We are students of all faculties and courses (law, medicine, physics, industrial organization, literature, etc.), women and men, and want to exchange views and opinions about all kinds of branches of science, politics, and everyday life. After the late long years we have te learn much and want to know very much. We beg Your Honour to invite those students, whc want to get into correspondence with us, to write to the above address as soon as possible. We beg Your Honour once for Your assistance and we hope, that we do not call in vain and that we will "get numerous answers. Name of my friends. Yours sincerely, Ulrich K. Bettyna. We have been asked for help and advice. It behooves us, not only as American students but also as American citi. zens, to give that help. The Gamecock suggests that, along with individual students writing, one of the organized groups-perhaps the International Relations Club-adopi correspondence with German students as a project, offering an accumnulation of ideas and thoughts. Small as it may be considered, this is a chance to further attempts for world peace. "Do you INTERNATIONAL PLAYH Germany Vie* Of Building E In our grandfathers' time, Prus sia fought three unprovoked war of aggression. Within our owi memory, Germany has shared th< responsibility for one world catas trophe and has been almost solel; responsible for bringing on an other. It must never be allowe to happen again. But Germany, besides being 4 trouble-maker, is also the eco nomic heart of Europe. Geograph: makes German rivers and rail ways the gateway to Central Eu rope. Technology makes Germai skill and energy a large facto in Europe's productive eapacity Geology made Germany one o Europe's two great sources o coal; and coal lies at the core o practically every problem in ev ery European country. Britain barely able to fill its own need today, used to supply a larg part of the Continent's coal re fquirements. The German Ruh1 and formerly German Upper Si lesia, now held by Poland, sup plied most of the rest. Just as France was and sti is the cultural heart of Wester Europe, so modern Germany ha been and will be its economi center-unless her great potentii capacities are uncoordinated an her lands totally divided. On May 8, 1945, Hitler's Gel many surrendered and ceased i exist. Three months later, Pres dent Truman, Premier Stalin, a:1 Prime Minister Attlee signed i Potsdam Agreement. By this pha they Intended that Germar should be rendered militari1 harmless and then gradually r< habilitated under the supervisit and control of Great Britain, Ru sia, the United States, and Franc The creation of a single and cei trally-controlled Germany was major plank of the agreemer Since that time much hard woi has been done by each of the foi occupying powers and by the Ge mans themselves. And yet i TALKING ABOUT: Need For B, You know, there are so mai different viewpoints to any que tion, it's hard to decide wh( right. But after cooling off somi what from my last subject, whis will hereafter remain unmentio ed, and reading some of my ma I've necided to forget the wh< thing. You who said so are rigli the whole thing IS too trivial mess with. So I'll just step ba and let men like Jimmy Byrn offer silent testimonial for Sou Carolina. I do, however, appreciate t letters you sent. I also found c how this rolumn stands with yi But I won't go THERE!! Ar way, back to normal. Earlier this week I had nothis to do except . . . (Well, y wouldn't care, anyway.), so I ski ped over to our gymnasium, thi "beautiful Roman structure" the university catalog calls though I could think of oth words that would better descri it, Why I went, I don't rememb( what I saw, I do. .On the same floor were m paywing basketball and handhal think we can get a husband at this OUSE red As Testing Ground : nduring Peace By Pow( - result so far has been almost a complete failure. The fact is that the machinery designed at Potsdam for the four power management and control of - Germany as a whole, has turned r out to be nothing more than a - bargaining and treaty-making ma I chinery among three separate Germanies. i The United States' offer of an - economic merger of the American r zone to all of the three other - powers, or to any of them, was - accepted only by Great Britain. 1 Instead of working together un r der a common plan and toward a common objective, the four oc f cupying powers have been work f ing in three separate watertight f compartments, each seeking to - make over in its own image a piece of what was once Germany. 9 Chief victim of Germany's last e three aggressions has been - France. That is why France in sists that the first consideration - of the treatment of Germany - should be her inescapable dis armament. Secondly, France de 1 mands that the Ruhr and Rhine n land be handed over to her as a s part of her permanent domain. Se c curity is the whole keynote of 1 French policy. In the French d view, unity for Germany is a sec ondary question. .- Russia is interested in de .o mobilizing German industry as I- a first step and extracting rep .d arations as part payment for her e losses in the war. She has moved n most of the factories in her zone y to Russia and now asks for a fur y ther payment of $10,000,000,000 - from the western zones. In July, n 1946, Molotov placed Russia on a- record as opposing any French e. annexations of German territory, a- favoring the early creation of an a anti-Fascist central German gov t. ernent, and insisting upon the k carrying out of the Potsdam ir Agreement. In taking this stand, r- the Soviet Foreign Minister an e tagonized French opinion and em etter Athletic Facilil By 1 y or trying to, messing with weights s- and pulleys, boxing, tumbling and 's even shuffleboarding. Outside the e- window, on Davis field, the base eh ball and track teams were prac n- ticing, intramural softball and I1, track teams were stumbling over >le each other, and a couple of golf t; fans were given the heave-ho from to the driving range there. Gad!!! Do you get the picture? Almnost th 4,400 students at a school with athletic facilities for 500, if you he take your shower in your room, ut Now do you see why veterans u. aren't REQUIRED to take gym? y- The situation Is deplorable. It's geven worse than that. It could au probably be described in the words p- of the Russian bard, C.H. (Old at Igor) Wickenberg, Juniorvitch, as which were, "Etaoin Shrdlu!' it, Translated into Spanish, it is "hor er riblemente," which In English be means, "*$@**&$-!!%" r; At present there are two physi cal ed classes scheduled simul en taneously in many periods, each L, with half of ONE basketball floos school?" In Experiment ,r Cooperation By CARLTON OWEN barrassed the powerful Fr ench Communist Party; but he also struck a shrewd blow on behalf of Soviet prestige among the Ger man people. In German eyes the Soviet has now become the cham pion of German unity and the de fender of German soil against an nexation in the West. Secretary Byrnes, in his Stutt gart speech, agreed that Poland should have some of the east German provinces, and that France should be given the Saar basin. On the other hand, he firmly insisted that the Rhine land arti the Ruhr should remain a party of Germany, and asked for nothing less than a central government. There is no reason to doubt that Secretary Marshall has the same view. At the Moscow Conference the Big Four are trying to resolve their differences with the least dis tisfaction for each. In prin ci , Russia, Great Britain, and th, United States agree on a fed erated, centrally-governed Ger many. Starting from here, a com promise of secondary interests should not be impossible or long forthcoming. Germany is the testing ground for the great experiment to which we are committed-the experi ment of building an enduring peace upon the foundation of great powlpr cooperation. Germany is the laboratory in which that ex periment must succeed or fail. IR that troubled and trouble some part of Europe between the Vistula and the Rhine, East and West must meet and learn to work together in friendship and in peace-If there Is to be peace in this world. Between these two rivers, men of widely differing backgrounds and traditions must learn how to reconcile widely dif fering concepts and Ideals. Be tween the Vistula and the Rhine the peace of the world cannot be wholly made; but it can be lost there altogether. lies IILL ROUTHI to use. The girls have been run Into the field house for their classes, and even IT Is suitable for nothing more than watching a basketball game. Since Rex Enright took over as athletic director of the university the P.E. department has acquired excellent equipment for almost al] sports, and plenty of it. But there's no place to use it. The department's function Is to serve the university students by (1) classes and instruction and (2) gIving them chances to prac tice what they learn. When a few men want to play a little soft ball between themselves, not in tramural but just for the fun and recreation, they should be able t( get the equipment and go play. But there's no field (or them to use. Even Intramural ball Is being squeezed out by the varsity teams because of lack of practice space, Nothing can be done when five different sports are being played on the same field. The University of South Caro. (Continuena P=age n) The Barter Post By PEGGY TREXLER The Purdue Exponent furnishes the following lesson in psychology as proof that we women just simply can't win. Men are what women marry. They have two feet, two hands, and sometimes two wives. Generally speaking, they are divided into three classes: husbands, bachelors, and widowers. Husbands are of three varieties: prizes, surprises, and consolation prizes. Making a husband out of a man is one of the highest arts known to civilization. It requires science, patience, persistence, faith, hope and charity. If you flatter a man you frighten him to death; if you don't, you bore him to death. If you permit him to make love to you, he gets tired of you in the end; and if you don't, he gets tired of you in the beginning. If you wear a startling hat, gay colors and rouge, he hesi tates to take you out. If you wear a little brown turban and a tailored made suit, he takes you out and stares all evening at a woman in gay colors, rouge, and startling hat. If you are the clinging vine type, he doubts whether you have any brains, and if you are a modsrn and intelligent woman, he wonders whether you have a heart. If you are silly he longs for a bright mate, and if you are intelligent, he longs for a playmate. A man is just a worm in the dust; he comes along, wiggles about for some time, and finally some chick grabs him .. . unquote. The University of Washington Daily confirms the state ment that the gold rush out on the west coast is not yet over, it has only been disguised. To back up- this opinion, the paper cites the story of a certain junior in the School of Mines, whose claim to fame can best be expressed in his own words: "I was up in Burlington (Wash.) in a dentist's office. Be lieve it or not, it was the office of Dr. Ernest Jones, who is now acting dean of the dentistry school here on the campus. Out of curiosity I asked him what he did with the floor sweepings. He told me the yhad been accumulating in the back alley for some 20 or 30 years, long before he had moved in. "That gave me an idea, so the next morning I built a sluice box in the alley, got a hose from the fire department and did a little sluicin on some of the dirt. After sluicin for two weeks I found $800 in gold from tooth fillings." The moral of the story is, "See your dentist regularly and eliminate financial embarrassment." Otis Weaver is a senior athlete, member of Blue Key, and , president of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity at Presby terian College. But a long distance telephone operator in Atlanta, Ga., wouldn't be convinced of that fact Tuesday, that is, not until Mrs. George W. Taylor, bursar, had ex pended a good bit of breath in explanation. The operator wanted to contact a Mr. Caskey in the office of President Otis Weaver. Mrs. Taylor: "What is he president of?" Operator: "Why, Presbyterian College, of course !" On the west side of the new lecture hall at the University of Miami is a small concrete structure that looks like the foundation for a pool. Strangely enough, on completion, this will be a reflecting pool. This pool will be the home of water lilies and other water plants, and Orville. Orville is a water sprite, 1/c. His chief function, besides ogling coeds, will be to assist struggling student,s in passing their exams. Orville claims he is a sec ond cousin of the spirit that- inhabits the statue of Tecum seh at Annapolis. For the benefit of the uninitiated, worried plebes toss pennies at Tecumseh on their way to exams. In an exclusive interview with the Hurricane, student pubixcation, Orville claims that he is not really mercenary, but everybody knows what living conditions are in Miami. In deference to Orville, no fish will be placed in the pool. Orville insists that he is allergic to fish. In return for any consideration shown to him by students, Orville will use all his magical powers to enable these students to obtain passing grades. With the aim of helping to promote a Federal Work Gov ernment to maintain peace, 100 students at the UNIVER SITY OF CHICAGO have established a chapter of Student Federalists, Inc. This organization has chapters in all 48 states, England,8 Holland, France, and Norway. It believes that in order to have a lasting peace people must recognize themselves as citizens of a world commuinity. The organization tries to stimulate this recognition by educating the youth in the principles of federalism and by finding and training leaders. THIS COLLEGIATE WORLD Reading Shelley by moonlightAlsandafrhndecis is NOT a sign of insanity, dem-$20amnhpuromndbr. onstrated students of Reed College"Iwudlktoseaaren last week in a protest to the ar- vriyi lsaweegaut rest of Thomas Kelley, picked upstdnscudoreachwk by the police as he sat on a cam- i lmtlg,arnm n pus bench the previous night road- ohrsinii tde, elg Ing poetry by the light of thereald"iodrtoaka moon. 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The Iowa state agronomists recently. woman on the other end of the Prices are high, schools lack line was cleaning an apartment in financial support, roads are few her home just vacated by her son and distances are great, Kellogg iin-law. said. Hay sells for $126 aton i eka a hi wif moed.